Adultery, masked balls and arias soaked in Champagne.

Performance
Viennese waltz maestro Johann Strauss II concocted a delightful trifle with Die Fledermaus,
his 1874 operetta about a wayward husband and his comeuppance at the
hand of a treacherous friend who
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A cross between the heady Space Queen and the rare, flavorful Orange Velvet

Features
Jilly Bean is not the most potent nug on Portland’s Collective shelves, but it’s among the most genetically interesting hybrids in town. Of practically royal descent, it comes from the pairing of Space Queen (a popular, heady strain) and the rare Orange Velvet. With today’s focus on high THC content, milder strains like Orange Velvet are less widely grown. However, its striking flavor and scent ...
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A comfortable, stimulating high has potential for awkward oversharing and unfiltered confessions.

Features
Cannabis in Portland will one day be like every other consumable in Portland. Which is to say, some people will produce great marijuana, others will not, and the jet set will decide which legends live on. Like bacon jam and double IPAs, the quality of your bud will depend on the grower. We’ll aim to shine a spotlight on the growers who’ve made Oregon a world-class stop on the Marijuana Express. ...
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A cardboard world, shiny and sequined.

Dance
A towering wall of used cardboard boxes
stretches diagonally across the stage, clear packing tape glinting in
the light. Robert Tyree enters, tall and long-limbed and dressed head to
toe in sequ
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Drank
Stodgy old gin has seen something of a renaissance of
late, with West Coast craft distillers livening it up with lavender,
caraway and malted barley. “Gin” is broadly defined, with spirits
f
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Love means never having to say you shot the president.

Books
As the 50th anniversary of the John F.
Kennedy assassination nears, in 2013, two out of three Americans still
believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in murdering the president.
Judyth Vary
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With Skyfall, the Bond franchise marks its 50th birthday.

Movie Reviews & Stories
James Bond should be forgiven a little creakiness. Ian
Fleming’s super-spy has spent 22 films and 50 years getting punched and
shot. His jet lag has to be excruciating. Let’s not even think of
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Beer me! Wait, maybe don’t.

Movie Reviews & Stories
Though there’s no dearth of films about alcoholism and recovery, Smashed reeled me back not to Barfly or Days of Wine and Roses, but to Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 modernist novel. L
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Red lipstick, David Byrne and a Nazi manhunt.

Movie Reviews & Stories
This Must Be the Place is not a
movie so much as a feature-length opportunity to gaze deeply into the
creases of Sean Penn’s face. Penn plays forlorn and aging glam rocker
Cheyenne, whose heav
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Food Cart Reviews
Our club-wielding ancestors would have a rough time making
chicken tenders the Cultured Caveman way. Considering Paleolithic
hominids couldn’t reliably control fire, they’d have to hand-
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